Listen to Rowan Lennon’s fascinating podcast on Mary Hays (1759–1843) - an autodidact intellectual who published essays, poetry, novels and several works on famous (and infamous) women.
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This January marks the 112th anniversary of the Tottenham Outrage. The online talk given by Alan Gartrell focused on the context of the Outrage and reveals Abney Park's links to the event.
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Watch the recording of Alan Gartrell’s fascinating and moving talk on war grave arrangements and how and why we commemorate the war dead in the way we do.
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Abney Park Trust gathered together musicians and artists from across Hackney to commemorate Remembrance Sunday. Watch the recording of the event.
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Watch the recording of Angelina Osborne’s online talk on 'Joanna Vassa: An imagined life', as part of our Black History Month events.
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Watch a recording of Burt Caesar’s talk, in which he considers three diasporic locations which precede the current so-called ‘Windrush Scandal’, a twenty-first century iteration of a ‘hostile environment’.
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Watch 'Your Own, Your Very Own', a documentary detailing the life and times of the music hall stars buried in Abney Park, presented by Colin Sell, of Radio 4's Sorry I Haven't A Clue.
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Abney Park Trust hosted an online event to mark the 80th anniversary of the Coronation Avenue bombing in 1940. Watch the recording.
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Watch the recording of Dr Romany Reagan’s lecture exploring the Victorian garden cemetery today as a place for mortality mediation and shared community space.
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Listen to Rowan Lennon as she tells the story of the Victorian Music Hall, burlesque and panto star, Nellie Power.
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Listen to Alan Gartrell’s podcast in which he talks about slave narratives and Abney Park’s links with Abolitionist history.
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Rowan Lennon discusses the life and times of the great man of Music Hall: George Leybourne, or ‘Champagne Charlie’ as he was known, who is buried at Abney Park.
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On Wednesday 20 May 2020 we celebrated the 180th anniversary of Abney Park Cemetery with two online talks given by Alan Gartrell and Sam Perrin, followed by a Q&A Session. Watch the recording of this event here.
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Watch a recording of Romany Reagan’s talk which presents the history of Abney Park - sharing a picture of the land itself; its place in wider mourning shifts and societal changes; and what Abney Park means for us today as a vital community space.
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Rowan Lennon provides fascinating insight into the amazing life and story of Margaret Graham, Abney's Aeronaut, who is laid to rest in our cemetery in 1880, sadly without monument. Listen to the podcast recording to find out more.
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Watch Andrew Peel (RSPB and Marylebone Birdwatching Society) as he walks through his local Horsenden Hill to to explain the beautiful sounds of the morning. (Recorded: 6 May 2020)
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